INTELLIPHARMACEUTICS INTERNATIONAL INC. UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT
99.1
October 12, 2018
X.X. Xxxxxxxxxx & Co., LLC
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, Intellipharmaceutics
International Inc., a corporation formed under the laws of Canada
(collectively with its subsidiaries and affiliates, including,
without limitation, all entities disclosed or described in the
Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) as being
subsidiaries or affiliates of Intellipharmaceutics International
Inc. (the “Company”)), hereby confirms its agreement (this
“Agreement”) with X.X. Xxxxxxxxxx & Co., LLC
(hereinafter referred to as “you” (including its
correlatives) or the “Underwriter”) as follows:
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Purchase
and Sale of Securities.
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1.1 Firm
Securities.
1.1.1 Nature and Purchase of
Firm Securities.
(i) On the basis of the representations and
warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and
conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell
to the Underwriter, an aggregate of 827,970 shares
(“Firm
Shares”) of the
Company’s common shares, no par value (the
“Common
Shares”), and an
aggregate of 16,563,335 pre-funded warrants (the
“Pre-Funded
Warrants”) in the form
filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement (as hereinafter
defined) (the “Pre-Funded Warrant
Agreement”) exercisable
into an aggregate of 16,563,335 shares of Common Shares (the
“Warrant
Shares”), together with
Common Share purchase warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of
17,391,305 shares of Common Shares (the “Firm
Warrants”) which shall
have an exercise price of $0.75, subject to adjustment as provided
in the warrant agreement in the form filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement (the “Warrant
Agreement”). The Firm
Shares, the Firm Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants are referred
to herein as the “Firm
Securities.”
(ii)
The Underwriter agrees to purchase from the Company the, at a
purchase price of $0.69 per Unit and $0.68 per Pre-Funded Unit, the
Firm Securities. The Firm Securities are to be offered initially to
the public at the offering price set forth on the cover page of the
Prospectus (as defined in Section 2.1.1 hereof).
1.1.2 Securities Payment and
Delivery.
(i) Delivery and payment for the Firm Securities
shall be made at 10:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the second (2nd)
Business Day following the effective date (the
“Effective
Date”) of the
Registration Statement (as defined in Section 2.1.1 below) under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities
Act”) (or the third (3rd)
Business Day following the Effective Date if the pricing for the
Offering (as defined in Section 2.1.1 below) occurs after 4:01
p.m., Eastern time on the Effective Date) or at such earlier time
as shall be agreed upon by the Underwriter and the Company, at the
offices of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, 00
Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
(“Underwriter
Counsel”), or at such
other place (or remotely by facsimile or other electronic
transmission) as shall be agreed upon by the Underwriter and the
Company. The hour and date of delivery and payment for the Firm
Securities is called the “Closing Date.”
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(ii) Payment for the Firm Securities shall be made
on the Closing Date by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds,
payable to the order of the Company upon delivery of the Firm
Securities, of which the Firm Shares shall be delivered via the
Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) and the Firm Warrants and the Pre-Funded
Warrants shall be delivered in certificated form, for the account
of the Underwriter. The Firm Securities shall be registered in such
name or names and in such authorized denominations as the
Underwriter may request in writing at least two (2) full Business
Days prior to the Closing Date. The Company shall not be obligated
to sell or deliver the Firm Securities except upon tender of
payment by the Underwriter for all of the Firm Securities. The term
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a
Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions
are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York, New
York.
1.2 Over-allotment
Option.
1.2.1 Option
Securities. For the purposes of
covering any over-allotments in connection with the distribution
and sale of the Firm Securities, the Company hereby grants to the
Underwriter an option (the “Over-allotment
Option”) to purchase up
to (a) 2,608,695 additional Common Shares, representing fifteen
percent (15%) of the Firm Shares sold in the offering, from the
Company (the “Option
Shares”), and/or (b)
warrants to purchase up to 2,608,695 Common Shares, representing
fifteen percent (15%) of the Firm Warrants sold in the offering
(the “Option
Warrants” and,
collectively with the Option Shares, the “Option
Securities”). The
purchase price to be paid per Option Share shall be $0.6808 and the
purchase price to be paid per Option Warrant shall be $0.0092. The
Common Shares underlying the Firm Warrants and the Option Warrants
are hereinafter referred to as the “Registered Warrant
Shares”. The Firm
Securities, the Warrant Shares, the Registered Warrant Shares and
the Option Securities are hereinafter referred to together as the
“Public
Securities.” The offering
and sale of the Public Securities is hereinafter referred to as the
“Offering.”
1.2.2 Exercise of
Option. The Over-allotment
Option granted pursuant to Section 1.2.1 hereof may be exercised by
the Underwriter as to all (at any time) or any part (from time to
time) of the Option Securities within thirty (30) days after the
Effective Date. The Underwriter shall not be under any obligation
to purchase any Option Securities prior to the exercise of the
Over-allotment Option. The Over-allotment Option granted hereby may
be exercised by the giving of oral notice to the Company from the
Underwriter, which must be confirmed in writing by overnight mail
or facsimile or other electronic transmission setting forth the
number of Option Securities to be purchased and the date and time
for delivery of and payment for the Option Securities (the
“Option Closing
Date”), which shall not
be earlier than two (2) Business Days nor later than three (3) full
Business Days after the date of the notice or such other time as
shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Underwriter, at the
offices of Underwriter’s Counsel or at such other place (including remotely by
facsimile or other electronic transmission) as shall be agreed upon
by the Company and the Underwriter. If such delivery and payment
for the Option Securities does not occur on the Closing Date, the
Option Closing Date will be as set forth in the notice. Upon
exercise of the Over-allotment Option with respect to all or any
portion of the Option Securities, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, (i) the Company shall become obligated
to sell to the Underwriter the number of Option Securities
specified in such notice and (ii) the Underwriter shall purchase
the total number of Option Securities specified in such
notice.
1.2.3 Payment and
Delivery. Payment for the
Option Securities shall be made on the Option Closing Date by wire
transfer in Federal (same day) funds, payable to the order of the
Company upon delivery to you of certificates (in form and substance
satisfactory to the Underwriter) representing the Option Securities
(or through the facilities of DTC) for the account of the
Underwriter. The Option Securities shall be registered in such name
or names and in such authorized denominations as the Underwriter
may request in writing at least two (2) full Business Days prior to
the Option Closing Date. The Company shall not be obligated to sell
or deliver the Option Securities except upon tender of payment by
the Underwriter for applicable Option
Securities.
1.3 Underwriter’s
Warrants.
1.3.1 Purchase
Warrants. The Company hereby
agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriter (and/or its designees)
on the Closing Date a warrant (“Underwriter’s
Warrant” and collectively
with the Pre-Funded Warrants and Firm Warrants, the
“Warrants”) for the purchase of an aggregate of
1,043,479 Common Shares, representing 6.0% of the aggregate gross
proceeds raised in the offering divided by the offering price. The
Underwriter’s Warrant agreement, in the form filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement (the
“Underwriter’s Warrant
Agreement”), shall be
exercisable, in whole or in part, commencing on a date which is 180
days after the Effective Date and expiring on the five-year
anniversary of the Effective Date at an initial exercise price of
$0.9375 per Common Share, which is equal to 125% of the initial
public offering price of the Firm Shares. The Underwriter’s
Warrant Agreement and the Common Shares issuable upon exercise
thereof are hereinafter referred to together as the
“Underwriter’s
Securities.” The
Underwriter understands and agrees that there are significant
restrictions pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 against transferring the
Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement and the underlying Common
Shares during the one hundred eighty (180) days after the Effective
Date and by its acceptance thereof shall agree that it will not
sell, transfer, assign, pledge or hypothecate
the
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Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement, or any
portion thereof, or be the subject of any hedging, short sale,
derivative, put or call transaction that would result in the
effective economic disposition of such securities for a period of
one hundred eighty (180) days following the Effective Date to
anyone other than (i) an Underwriter or a selected dealer in
connection with the Offering, or (ii) a bona fide officer or
partner of the Underwriter or of any such Underwriter or selected
dealer; and only if any such transferee agrees to the foregoing
lock-up restrictions.
1.3.2 Delivery.
Delivery of the Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement shall be made
on the Closing Date and shall be issued in the name or names and in
such authorized denominations as the Underwriter may
request.
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Representations
and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants
to the Underwriter as of the Applicable Time (as defined below), as
of the Closing Date and as of the Option Closing Date, if any, as
follows:
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2.1 Filing of Registration
Statement.
2.1.1 Pursuant to the
Securities Act. The Company has
filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) a registration statement, and an
amendment or amendments thereto, on Form F-1 (File No. 333-227448),
including any related prospectus or prospectuses, for the
registration of the Public Securities under the Securities Act,
which registration statement and amendment or amendments have been
prepared by the Company in all material respects in conformity with
the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations of the Commission under the Securities Act (the
“Securities Act
Regulations”) and will
contain all material statements that are required to be stated
therein in accordance with the Securities Act and the Securities
Act Regulations. Except as the context may otherwise require, such
registration statement, as amended, on file with the Commission at
the time the registration statement became effective (including the
Preliminary Prospectus included in the registration statement,
financial statements, schedules, exhibits and all other documents
filed as a part thereof or incorporated therein and all information
deemed to be a part thereof as of the Effective Date pursuant to
paragraph (b) of Rule 430A of the Securities Act Regulations (the
“Rule
430A Information”)), is
referred to herein as the “Registration
Statement.” If the
Company files any registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) of
the Securities Act Regulations, then after such filing, the term
“Registration
Statement” shall include
such registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b). The
Registration Statement has been declared effective by the
Commission on the date hereof.
Each prospectus used prior to the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement, and each prospectus that omitted the
Rule 430A Information that was used after such effectiveness and
prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, is herein
called a “Preliminary
Prospectus.” The
Preliminary Prospectus, subject to completion, dated October 11,
2018, that was included in the Registration Statement immediately
prior to the Applicable Time is hereinafter called the
“Pricing
Prospectus.” The final
prospectus in the form first furnished to the Underwriter for use
in the Offering is hereinafter called the
“Prospectus.”
Any reference to the “most recent Preliminary
Prospectus” shall be
deemed to refer to the latest Preliminary Prospectus included in
the Registration Statement.
All references in this agreement (this
“Agreement”) to the Registration Statement, the Rule
462(b) Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements to any of the
foregoing, shall be deemed to include any copy thereof filed with
the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis
and Retrieval System (“XXXXX”).
“Applicable
Time” means 6:00 a.m.,
Eastern time, on October 12, 2018.
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“Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus” means any
“issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule
433 of the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 433”), including without limitation any
“free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of
the Securities Act Regulations) relating to the Public Securities
that is (i) required to be filed with the Commission by the
Company, (ii) a “road show that is a written
communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i),
whether or not required to be filed with the Commission, or (iii)
exempt from filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule
433(d)(5)(i) because it contains a description of the Public
Securities or of the Offering that does not reflect the final
terms, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with
the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form
retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule
433(g).
“Issuer General Use Free Writing
Prospectus” means any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general
distribution to prospective investors (other than a
“bona
fide electronic road
show,” as defined in Rule 433(the “Bona Fide Electronic
Road Show”)), as evidenced by its being specified
in Schedule
1-B hereto.
“Issuer Limited Use Free Writing
Prospectus” means any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not an Issuer General Use
Free Writing Prospectus.
“Pricing Disclosure
Package” means any Issuer
General Use Free Writing Prospectus issued at or prior to the
Applicable Time, the Pricing Prospectus and the information
included on Schedule 1-A hereto, all considered
together.
2.1.2 Pursuant to the
Exchange Act. The Common Shares
are deemed registered pursuant to Section 12(b) under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”). The Company has taken no action designed
to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration
of the Common Shares under the Exchange Act, nor has the Company
received any notification that the Commission is contemplating
terminating such registration.
2.2 Stock Exchange
Listing. The Common Shares are
listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market and the Toronto Stock Exchange
(collectively, the “Exchange”), and the Company has taken no action
designed to, or likely to have the effect of, delisting the Common
Shares from the Exchange, nor has the Company received any
notification that the Exchange is contemplating terminating such
listing except as described in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. The Company has (a)
submitted the Listing of Additional Shares Notification Form with
The Nasdaq Capital Market and (b) made a listing application to the
Toronto Stock Exchange; in each case, with respect with respect to
the Offering of the Public Securities (including the Warrant Shares
and the Registered Warrant Shares).
2.3 No Stop Orders,
etc. Neither the Commission
nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any state regulatory
authority has issued any order preventing or suspending the use of
the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus or has instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened to institute, any proceedings with respect to such an
order. The Company has complied with each request (if any) from the
Commission for additional information.
2.4 Disclosures in
Registration Statement.
2.4.1 Compliance with
Securities Act and 10b-5 Representation.
(i)
Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment
thereto, at the time it became effective, complied in all material
respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Securities Act Regulations. Each Preliminary Prospectus, including
the prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement as
originally filed or as part of any amendment or supplement thereto,
and the Prospectus, at the time each was filed with the Commission,
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. Each Preliminary
Prospectus delivered to the Underwriter for use in connection with
this Offering and the Prospectus was or will be identical to the
electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission
pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by Regulation
S-T.
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(ii)
Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, at
its effective time, as of the Applicable Time, at the Closing Date
or at any Option Closing Date (if any), contained, contains or will
contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or
will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided,
however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to
the Underwriters’ Information (as such term is defined in
Section 2.4.1(iii) below).
(iii) The Pricing Disclosure Package, as of
the Applicable Time, at the Closing Date or at any Option Closing
Date (if any), did not, does not and will not include an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
each Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus hereto does not
conflict with the information contained in the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or
the Prospectus, and each such Issuer Limited Use Free Writing
Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing
Prospectus as of the Applicable Time, did not include an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not
apply to statements made or statements omitted in reliance upon and
in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
with respect to the Underwriter expressly for use in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or any amendment thereof or
supplement thereto. The parties acknowledge and agree that such
information provided by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists
solely of the following disclosure contained in the
“Underwriting” section of the Prospectus: (i) the third
paragraph under the heading “Underwriting”; (ii) the
information under the heading “Underwriting Discounts,
Commissions and Expenses,” and (iii) the first three
paragraphs under the heading “Stabilization, Short Positions
and Penalty Bids” (the “Underwriter’s
Information”);
and
(iv) Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or
supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its
issue date, at the time of any filing with the Commission pursuant
to Rule 424(b), at the Closing Date or at any Option Closing Date,
included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not
apply to the Underwriter’s Information.
(v)
The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with
the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material
respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder and none of such documents contained any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, when such documents become effective or are filed with
the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material
respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
2.4.2 Disclosure of
Agreements. The agreements and
documents described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus conform in all material
respects to the descriptions thereof contained or incorporated by
reference therein and there are no agreements or other documents
required by the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations
to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or to be filed with the
Commission as exhibits to the Registration Statement or to be
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, that have not been so
described or filed or incorporated by reference. Each agreement or
other instrument (however characterized or described) to which the
Company is a party or by which it is or may be bound or affected
and (i) that is referred to or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, or (ii) is material to the Company’s business,
has been duly authorized and validly executed by the Company, is in
full force and effect in all material respects and is enforceable
against the Company and, to the Company’s knowledge, the
other parties thereto, in accordance with its terms, except (x) as
such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally, (y) as enforceability of any indemnification or
contribution provision may be limited under the federal and state
securities laws, and (z) that the remedy of specific performance
and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject
to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before
which any
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proceeding therefor may be brought. None of such
agreements or instruments has been assigned by the Company, and
neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any
other party is in default thereunder and, to the Company’s
knowledge, no event has occurred that, with the lapse of time or
the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default
thereunder, except for a default or event which would not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change (as
such term is defined in Section 2.5.1 below). To the
Company’s knowledge, performance by the Company of the
material provisions of such agreements or instruments will not
result in a violation of any existing applicable law, rule,
regulation, judgment, order or decree of any governmental agency or
court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or
any of its assets or businesses (each, a “Governmental
Entity”), including,
without limitation, those relating to environmental laws and
regulations, except for any such violation that would not have
or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.4.3 Prior Securities
Transactions. Subsequent to the
respective dates as of which information is given in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, no securities of the Company have been sold by the
Company or by or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any person or
persons controlling, controlled by or under common control with the
Company, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
2.4.4 Regulations.
The disclosures in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus concerning the effects of
federal, state, local and all foreign regulation on the Offering
and the Company’s business as currently contemplated are
correct in all material respects and no other such regulations are
required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which are not so
disclosed.
2.4.5 No Other Distribution
of Offering Materials. The
Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will not
distribute any offering material in connection with the Offering
other than any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus, the
Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and other materials, if
any, permitted under the Securities Act and consistent with Section
3.2 below.
2.5 Changes After Dates in
Registration Statement.
2.5.1 No Material Adverse
Change. Since the respective
dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
except as otherwise specifically stated therein and except in
accordance with its ordinary operations: (i) there has been no
material adverse change in the financial position or results of
operations of the Company, nor any change or development that,
singularly or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to
involve a material adverse change, in or affecting the condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets
or prospects of the Company (a “Material Adverse
Change”); (ii) there have
been no material transactions entered into by the Company, other
than as contemplated pursuant to this Agreement; and (iii) no
officer or director of the Company has resigned from any position
with the Company.
2.5.2 Recent Securities
Transactions, etc. Subsequent
to the respective dates as of which information is given in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, and except as may otherwise be indicated or
contemplated herein or disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not:
(i) issued any securities, other than (i) grants under any stock
compensation plan and (ii) Common Shares issued upon the exercise
or conversion of then outstanding options, warrants and/or
convertible securities, or incurred any liability or obligation,
direct or contingent, for borrowed money; or (ii) declared or paid
any dividend or made any other distribution on or in respect to its
capital stock.
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2.6 Disclosures in
Commission Filings. Since
November 30, 2015, (i) none of the Company’s filings with the
Commission contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading; and (ii) the Company has made all
filings with the Commission required under the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (the
“Exchange Act
Regulations”).
2.7 Independent
Accountants. To the knowledge
of the Company, each of MNP LLP and Deloitte LLP (collectively, the
“Auditor”), whose report is filed with the
Commission and included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm as
required by the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations
and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The
Auditor has not, during the periods covered by the
financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, provided to the Company any non-audit services, as such
term is used in Section 10A(g) of the Exchange
Act.
2.8 Financial Statements,
etc. The financial statements,
including the notes thereto and supporting schedules included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, fairly
present in all material respects the financial position and
the results of operations of the Company at the dates and for the
periods to which they apply; and such financial statements have
been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles (“GAAP”), consistently applied throughout the
periods involved (provided that unaudited interim financial
statements are subject to year-end audit adjustments that are not
expected to be material in the aggregate and do not contain all
footnotes required by GAAP); and the supporting schedules included
or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement present
fairly in all material respects the information required to be
stated therein. The pro forma financial statements and the related
notes, if any, included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus have been properly compiled and prepared in accordance
with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the
Securities Act Regulations, the Exchange Act and/or the Exchange
Act Regulations and present fairly the information shown therein,
and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable
and the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to
the transactions and circumstances referred to therein. Except as
included or incorporated by reference therein, no historical or pro
forma financial statements are required to be included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus under the Securities
Act, the Securities Act Regulations, the Exchange Act or the
Exchange Act Regulations. The pro forma and pro forma as adjusted
financial information and the related notes, if any, included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been properly
compiled and prepared in accordance with the applicable
requirements of the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations,
the Exchange Act or the Exchange Act Regulations and present fairly
in all material respects the information shown therein, and the
assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the
adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to the
transactions and circumstances referred to therein. All disclosures
contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus, or incorporated or deemed incorporated
by reference therein, regarding “non-GAAP financial
measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and
regulations of the Commission), if any, comply in all material
respects with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of
Regulation S-K of the Securities Act, to the extent applicable.
Each of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus discloses all material off-balance sheet
transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent
obligations), and other relationships of the Company with
unconsolidated entities or other persons that may have a material
current or future effect on the Company’s financial
condition, changes in financial condition, results of operations,
liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or significant
components of revenues or expenses. Except as
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disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since the date
of the latest financial statements of the Company included or
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (a) neither the
Company nor any of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including
each entity disclosed or described in the Registration Statement,
the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus as being a
subsidiary of the Company (each, a “Subsidiary” and, collectively, the
“Subsidiaries”), has incurred any material liabilities or
obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material
transactions other than in the ordinary course of business, (b) the
Company has not declared or paid any dividends or made any
distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock, (c)
there has not been any change in the capital stock of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, or, other than in the ordinary course
of business or any grants under any stock compensation plan and
Common Shares issued upon exercise or conversion of options,
warrants or convertible securities described in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and
(d) there has not been any Material Adverse Change in the
Company’s long-term or short-term debt.
2.9 Authorized Capital;
Options, etc. The Company had,
at the date or dates indicated in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the duly authorized,
issued and outstanding capitalization as set forth therein. Based
on the assumptions stated in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company will
have on the Closing Date the adjusted stock capitalization set
forth therein. Except as set forth in, or contemplated by, the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, on the Effective Date, as of the Applicable Time and on
the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date, there will be no
stock options, warrants, or other rights to purchase or otherwise
acquire any authorized, but unissued Common Shares of the Company
or any security convertible or exercisable into Common Shares of
the Company, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell
Common Shares or any such options, warrants, rights or convertible
securities.
2.10 Valid Issuance of
Securities, etc.
2.10.1 Outstanding
Securities. Since November 30,
2015, all issued and outstanding securities of the Company issued
prior to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been
duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and
non-assessable; the holders thereof have no rights of rescission
with respect thereto, and are not subject to personal liability by
reason of being such holders; and none of such securities were
issued in violation of the preemptive rights of any holders of any
security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by
the Company. The authorized Common Shares conform in all material
respects to all statements relating thereto contained in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus. The offers and sales of the outstanding Common Shares
were at all relevant times either registered under the Securities
Act and the applicable state securities or “blue sky”
laws or, based in part on the representations and warranties of the
purchasers of such Common Shares, exempt from such registration
requirements.
2.10.2 Securities Sold
Pursuant to this Agreement. The
Public Securities and Underwriter’s Securities have been duly
authorized for issuance and sale and, when issued and paid
for in accordance with their respective terms, will be validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not
and will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being
such holders; the Public Securities and Underwriter’s
Securities are not and will not be subject to the preemptive rights
of any holders of any security of the Company or similar
contractual rights granted by the Company; and all corporate action
required to be taken for the authorization, issuance and sale of
the Public Securities and Underwriter’s Securities has been
duly and validly taken. The Public Securities and
Underwriter’s Securities conform in all material respects to
all statements with respect thereto contained in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All
corporate action required to be taken for the authorization,
issuance and sale of the Pre-Funded Warrants, the Firm Warrants,
the Option Warrants and Underwriter’s Warrant have been duly
and validly taken; the Warrant Shares, the Registered Warrant
Shares and the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the
Underwriter’s Warrant have been duly authorized and reserved
for issuance by all necessary corporate action on the part of the
Company and when paid for and issued in accordance with the
Pre-Funded Warrant Agreement, the Warrant Agreement and the
Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement, respectively, such Common
Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the
holders thereof are not and will not be subject to personal
liability by reason of being such holders; and such Common Shares
are not and will not be subject to the preemptive rights of any
holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual
rights granted by the Company.
2.11 Registration Rights of
Third Parties. Except as set
forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus, no holders of any securities of the Company or
any rights exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into
securities of the Company have the right to require the Company to
register any such securities of the Company under the Securities
Act or to include any such securities in a registration statement
to be filed by the Company (except with respect to securities
covered by an effective registration
statement).
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2.12 Validity and Binding
Effect of Agreements. This
Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Pre-Funded Warrant Agreement
and the Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement have been duly and
validly authorized by the Company, and, when executed and
delivered, will constitute, the valid and binding agreements of the
Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their
respective terms, except: (i) as such enforceability may be limited
by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance,
fraudulent transfer, moratorium or similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally; (ii) as enforceability of any
indemnification or contribution provision may be limited under the
federal and state securities laws; and (iii) that the remedy of
specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable
relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the
discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be
brought.
2.13 No Conflicts,
etc. The execution, delivery
and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the Warrant
Agreement, the Pre-Funded Warrant Agreement, the
Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement and all ancillary documents,
the consummation by the Company of the transactions herein and
therein contemplated and the compliance by the Company with the
terms hereof and thereof do not and will not, with or without the
giving of notice or the lapse of time or both: (i) result in a
material breach of, or conflict with any of the terms and
provisions of, or constitute a material default under, or result in
the creation, modification, termination or imposition of any lien,
charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company
pursuant to the terms of any agreement or instrument to which the
Company is a party; (ii) result in any violation of the provisions
of the Company’s articles of arrangement of the Company dated
October 22, 2009 (as amended by articles of amendment dated
September 12, 2018, and as the same may be further amended or
restated from time to time, the “Charter”) or the by-laws of the Company; or (iii)
violate any existing applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment,
order or decree of any Governmental Entity as of the date hereof
including, without limitation, those promulgated by the Food and
Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (the “FDA”) or by any foreign, federal, state or
local regulatory authority performing functions similar to those
performed by the FDA, except in the case of clauses (i) and (iii)
above for any such breaches, conflicts, defaults or violations
which would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Change.
2.14 No Defaults;
Violations. Except as described
in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, no default exists in the due performance and
observance of any term, covenant or condition of any material
license, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, note, loan
or credit agreement, or any other agreement or instrument
evidencing an obligation for borrowed money, or any other material
agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which
the Company may be bound or to which any of the properties or
assets of the Company is subject. The Company is not in violation
of (i) any term or provision of its Charter or by-laws, or (ii) any
franchise, license, permit, applicable law, rule, regulation,
judgment or decree of any Governmental Entity applicable to the
Company, except as would not reasonably be expected to result,
individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.15 Corporate Power;
Licenses; Consents.
2.15.1 Conduct of
Business. Except as described
in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, the Company has all requisite corporate power and
authority, and has all necessary authorizations, approvals, orders,
licenses, certificates and permits of and from all governmental
regulatory officials and bodies that it needs as of the date hereof
to conduct its business purpose as described in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus,
except where the failure to have any such authorization, approval,
order, license, certificate or permit would not have or reasonably
be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.15.2 Transactions
Contemplated Herein. The
Company has all corporate power and authority to enter into this
Agreement and to carry out the provisions and conditions hereof,
and all consents, authorizations, approvals and orders required in
connection therewith have been obtained. No consent, authorization
or order of, and no filing with, any court, government agency or
other body is required for the valid issuance, sale and delivery of
the Public Securities and the consummation of the transactions and
agreements contemplated by this Agreement, the Warrant Agent
Agreement, the Pre-Funded Warrant Agreement, the
Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement and as contemplated by the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, except with respect to applicable federal and state
securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Exchange and
the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
(“FINRA”) and except with respect to such
consent, authorization, order or filing that would not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Change.
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2.16 D&O
Questionnaires. To the
Company’s knowledge, all information contained in the
questionnaires (the “Questionnaires”)
completed by each of the Company’s directors and officers
immediately prior to the Offering (the “Insiders”) as supplemented by all information
concerning the Company’s directors, officers and principal
shareholders as described in or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, as well as in the Lock-Up Agreement (as defined
herein), provided to the Underwriter, is true and correct in all
material respects and the Company has not become aware of any
information which would cause the information disclosed in the
Questionnaires to become materially inaccurate and
incorrect.
2.17 Litigation;
Governmental Proceedings. There
is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry, arbitration,
investigation, litigation or governmental proceeding pending or, to
the Company’s knowledge, threatened against, or involving the
Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any executive officer
or director which has not been disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which
is required to be disclosed (it being understood that the
interaction between the Company and the FDA and such comparable
governmental bodies relating to the clinical development and
product approval process shall not be deemed proceedings for
purposes of this representation), except for any such action, suit,
proceeding, inquiry, arbitration, investigation, litigation or
governmental proceeding that would not have or reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.18 Good
Standing. The Company has been
duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation and is in
good standing under the laws of Canada as of the date hereof, and
is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each
other jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or
the conduct of business requires such qualification, except where
the failure to qualify, singularly or in the aggregate, would not
have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.19 Insurance.
The Company carries or is entitled to the benefits of insurance,
with, to the Company’s knowledge, reputable insurers, and in
such amounts and covering such risks which the Company believes are
reasonably adequate, and all such insurance is in full force and
effect. The Company has no reason to believe that it will not be
able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such
policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar
institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its
business as now conducted and at a cost that would not reasonably
be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.20 Transactions Affecting
Disclosure to FINRA.
2.20.1 Finder’s
Fees. Except as described in
the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, there are no claims, payments, arrangements, agreements
or understandings relating to the payment of a finder’s,
consulting or origination fee by the Company or any Insider with
respect to the sale of the Public Securities hereunder or any other
arrangements, agreements or understandings of the Company or, to
the Company’s knowledge, any of its shareholders that may
affect the Underwriter’s compensation, as determined by
FINRA.
2.20.2 Payments Within Twelve
(12) Months. Except as
described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus, the Company has not made any direct or
indirect payments (in cash, securities or otherwise) to: (i) any
person, as a finder’s fee, consulting fee or otherwise, in
consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or
introducing to the Company persons who raised or provided capital
to the Company; (ii) any FINRA member; or (iii) any person or
entity that has any direct or indirect affiliation or association
with any FINRA member, within the twelve (12) months prior to the
Effective Date, other than the payment to the Underwriter as
provided hereunder in connection with the
Offering.
2.20.3 Use of
Proceeds. None of the net
proceeds of the Offering will be paid by the Company to any
participating FINRA member or its affiliates, except as
specifically authorized herein.
2.20.4 FINRA
Affiliation. Except as
disclosed in their FINRA confirmations, to the Company’s
knowledge, there is no (i) officer or director of the Company, (ii)
beneficial owner of 5% or more of any class of the Company's
securities or (iii) beneficial owner of the Company's unregistered
equity securities which were acquired during the 180-day period
immediately preceding the filing of the Registration Statement that
is an affiliate or associated person of a FINRA member
participating in the Offering (as determined in accordance with the
rules and regulations of FINRA).
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2.20.5 Information.
To the Company’s knowledge, all information provided by the
Company in its FINRA questionnaire to Underwriter Counsel
specifically for use by Underwriter Counsel in connection with its
Public Offering System filings (and related disclosure) with FINRA
is true, correct and complete in all material
respects.
2.21 Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act. None of the
Company and its Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge,
any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company
and its Subsidiaries or any other person acting on behalf of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, has, directly or indirectly, given or
agreed to give any money, gift or similar benefit (other than legal
price concessions to customers in the ordinary course of business)
to any customer, supplier, employee or agent of a customer or
supplier, or official or employee of any governmental agency or
instrumentality of any government (domestic or foreign) or any
political party or candidate for office (domestic or foreign) or
other person who was, is, or may be in a position to help or hinder
the business of the Company (or assist it in connection with any
actual or proposed transaction) that (i) might subject the Company
to any damage or penalty in any civil, criminal or governmental
litigation or proceeding, (ii) if not given in the past, might
reasonably been expected to have had a Material Adverse Change or
(iii) if not continued in the future, might adversely affect the
assets, business, operations or prospects of the Company. The
Company has taken reasonable steps to ensure that its accounting
controls and procedures are sufficient to cause the Company to
comply in all material respects with the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act of 1977, as amended.
2.22 Compliance with
OFAC. None of the Company and
its Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any
director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company and
its Subsidiaries or any other person acting on behalf of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, is currently subject to any U.S.
sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of
the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”), and the Company will not, directly or
indirectly, use the proceeds of the Offering hereunder, or lend,
contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any
subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for
the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently
subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by
OFAC.
2.23 Forward-Looking
Statements. No forward-looking
statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in either the
Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package or Prospectus
has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been
disclosed by the Company other than in good
faith.
2.24 Money Laundering
Laws. The operations of the
Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all
times in compliance in all material respects with applicable
financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency
and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the
money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the
rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules,
regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any
Governmental Entity (collectively, the “Money Laundering
Laws”); and no action,
suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Entity involving
the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending
or, to the knowledge of the Company,
threatened.
2.25 Officers’
Certificate. Any certificate
signed by any duly authorized officer of the Company and delivered
to the Underwriter or to Underwriter Counsel shall be deemed a
representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriter as to
the matters covered thereby.
2.26 Lock-Up
Agreements. Schedule
2 hereto contains a
complete and accurate list of the Company’s officers and
directors (collectively, the “Lock-Up
Parties”). The Company
has caused each of the Lock-Up Parties to deliver to the
Underwriter an executed Lock-Up Agreement, in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit
A (the “Lock-Up
Agreement”), prior to the
execution of this Agreement. If the Underwriter, in
its sole discretion, agrees to release or waive the restrictions
set forth in a Lock-Up Agreement for an officer or director of the
Company and provides the Company with notice of the impending
release or waiver at least three (3) Business Days before the
effective date of the release or waiver, the Company agrees to
announce the impending release or waiver at least two (2) business
days before the effective date of the release or waiver by either
(i) a press release through a major news service at least two
(2) Business Days before the effective date of the release or
waiver, or (ii) any other method that satisfies the
obligations described in FINRA
Rule 5131(d)(2).
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2.27 Subsidiaries.
All direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Company are duly
organized and in good standing under the laws of the place of
organization or incorporation, and each Subsidiary is in good
standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of
property or the conduct of business requires such qualification,
except where the failure to qualify would not result in a Material
Adverse Change. The Company’s ownership and control of each
Subsidiary is as described in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and the securities of
the Subsidiaries that it owns are free and clear of any claims,
liens, encumbrances or security interests except as set forth in
the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, and all of the securities have been duly authorized and
validly issued by the applicable Subsidiary and are fully paid and
non-assessable.
2.28 Related Party
Transactions. There are no
business relationships or related party transactions involving the
Company or any other person required to be described in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus that have not been described as
required.
2.29 Board of
Directors. The board of
directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors” or
“Board”) is comprised of the persons set forth under
the heading incorporated by reference into the Pricing Prospectus
and the Prospectus captioned “Management.” The
qualifications of the persons serving as board members and the
overall composition of the Board comply with the Exchange Act, the
Exchange Act Regulations, the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the
rules promulgated thereunder (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act”) applicable to the
Company and the listing rules of the Exchange. At least one member
of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company
qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as
such term is defined under Regulation S-K and the listing rules of
the Exchange. In addition, at least a majority of the persons
serving on the Board of Directors qualify as
“independent,” as defined under the listing rules of
the Exchange.
2.30 Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Compliance.
2.30.1 Disclosure
Controls. Except as described
in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, the Company has developed and currently maintains
disclosure controls and procedures that comply with Rule 13a-15 or
15d-15 under the Exchange Act Regulations applicable to it,
and such controls and procedures are effective to ensure that all
material information concerning the Company will be made known on a
timely basis to the individuals responsible for the preparation of
the Company’s Exchange Act filings and other public
disclosure documents.
2.30.2 Compliance.
The Company is, or at the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date
will be, in material compliance with the provisions of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act applicable to it, and has implemented or will
implement such programs and taken reasonable steps to ensure the
Company’s future compliance (not later than the relevant
statutory and regulatory deadlines therefor) with all of the
material provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act.
2.31 Accounting
Controls. The Company and its
Subsidiaries maintain systems of “internal control over
financial reporting” (as defined under Rules 13a-15 and
15d-15 under the Exchange Act Regulations) that comply in all
material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and
have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their
respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or
persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with GAAP, including, but not limited to, internal
accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that
(i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii)
access to assets is permitted only in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the
recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing
assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with
respect to any differences. Except as disclosed in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the
Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal
controls. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of
the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses, if any, in the
design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting
which are known to the Company’s management and that have
adversely affected or are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
Company’ ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information; and (ii) any fraud known to the
Company’s management, whether or not material, that involves
management or other employees who have a significant role in the
Company’s internal controls over financial
reporting.
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2.32 No Investment Company
Status. The Company is not and,
after giving effect to the Offering and the application of the
proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will not be,
required to register as an “investment company,” as
defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
2.33 No Labor
Disputes. No labor dispute with
the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries exists or,
to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened.
2.34 Intellectual Property
Rights. The Company and each of
its Subsidiaries owns or possesses or has valid rights to use all
patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade
names, trademark registrations, service xxxx registrations,
copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets and similar rights
(“Intellectual Property
Rights”) necessary for
the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as
currently carried on and as described in or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus. Except as set forth in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, to
the knowledge of the Company, no action or use by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries necessary for the conduct of its business
as currently carried on and as described in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus will involve or give rise to any
infringement of, or license or similar fees for, any Intellectual
Property Rights of others. Except as set forth in the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, to
the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has received any written notice alleging any such
infringement, fee or conflict with asserted Intellectual Property
Rights of others. Except as would not reasonably be expected to
result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse
Change (A) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no
infringement, misappropriation or violation by third parties of any
of the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company; (B) there
is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened
action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the rights
of the Company in or to any such Intellectual Property Rights, and
the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable
basis for any such claim, that would, individually or in the
aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 2.34,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; (C)
the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company and, to the
knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property Rights licensed
to the Company have not been adjudged by a court of competent
jurisdiction invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and
there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging
the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights, and
the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable
basis for any such claim that would, individually or in the
aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 2.34,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; and
(D) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the
Company infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any
Intellectual Property Rights or other proprietary rights of others,
the Company has not received any written notice of such claim and
the Company is unaware of any other facts which would form a
reasonable basis for any such claim that would, individually or in
the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 2.34,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. In
addition, to the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the
Company is in or has ever been in violation of any term of any
employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention
assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation
agreement, nondisclosure agreement or any restrictive covenant to
or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates
to such employee’s employment with the Company, or actions
undertaken by the employee while employed with the Company and
could reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the
aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change. To the Company’s
knowledge, all material trade secrets developed by and belonging to
the Company which have not been patented have been kept
confidential. The Company is not a party to or bound by any
options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual
Property Rights of
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any other person or entity that are required to be
set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus and are not described therein. The
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus contain in all material respects the same description of
the matters set forth in the preceding sentence. None of the
technology employed by the Company has been obtained or is being
used by the Company in violation of any contractual obligation
binding on the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of
its officers, directors or employees, or otherwise in violation of
the rights of any persons, where such violation could reasonably be
expected to be a Material Adverse Change.
2.35 Taxes.
Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has filed all returns (as
hereinafter defined) required to be filed with taxing authorities
prior to the date hereof or has duly obtained extensions of time
for the filing thereof. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries
has paid all taxes (as hereinafter defined) shown as due on such
returns that were filed and has paid all taxes imposed on or
assessed against the Company or such respective Subsidiary, except
(i) such taxes the Company or a Subsidiary is challenging in good
faith and (ii) could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Change. The provisions for taxes payable, if any, shown on
the financial statements filed with or as part of the Registration
Statement are sufficient for all accrued and unpaid taxes, whether
or not disputed, and for all periods to and including the dates of
such consolidated financial statements. Except as disclosed in
writing to the Underwriter or as could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, (i) no issues have
been raised (and are currently pending) by any taxing authority in
connection with any of the returns or taxes asserted as due from
the Company or its Subsidiaries, and (ii) no waivers of statutes of
limitation with respect to the returns or collection of taxes have
been given by or requested from the Company or its Subsidiaries.
The term “taxes” means all federal, state, local, foreign
and other net income, gross income, gross receipts, sales, use, ad
valorem, transfer, franchise, profits, license, lease, service,
service use, withholding, payroll, employment, excise, severance,
stamp, occupation, premium, property, windfall profits, customs,
duties or other taxes, fees, assessments or charges of any kind
whatever, together with any interest and any penalties, additions
to tax or additional amounts with respect thereto. The term
“returns” means all returns, declarations, reports,
statements and other documents required to be filed in respect to
taxes.
2.36 ERISA
Compliance. The Company and any
“employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the
regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively,
“ERISA”)) established or maintained by the Company
or its “ERISA Affiliates” (as defined below) are in
compliance in all material respects with ERISA.
“ERISA
Affiliate” means, with
respect to the Company, any member of any group of organizations
described in Sections 414(b),(c),(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company is a member. No
“reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has
occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any
“employee benefit plan” established or maintained by
the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates. No “employee
benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any
of its ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit
plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of
unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA).
Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred or
reasonably expects to incur any material liability under (i) Title
IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any
“employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971,
4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each “employee benefit plan”
established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA
Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of
the Code is so qualified and, to the knowledge of the Company,
nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which
would cause the loss of such qualification.
2.37 Compliance with
Laws. Except as described in
the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus, or as would not reasonably be expected to result,
individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change, the
Company: (A) is and at all times has been in compliance with all
statutes, rules, or regulations applicable to the ownership,
testing, development, manufacture, packaging, processing, use,
distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion, sale, offer for sale,
storage, import, export or disposal of any product manufactured or
distributed by the Company (“Applicable
Laws”); (B) has not
received any FDA Form 483, notice of adverse finding, warning
letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or written notice
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other
Governmental Entity alleging or asserting noncompliance with any
Applicable Laws or any licenses, certificates, approvals,
clearances, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments
thereto required by any such Applicable Laws
(“Authorizations”);
(C) possesses all Authorizations and such material Authorizations
are valid and in full force and effect and are not in material
violation of any term of any such Authorizations; (D) has not
received written notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding,
hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action
from any Governmental Entity or third party alleging that any is in
violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and has no
knowledge that any such Governmental Entity or third party is
considering any such claim, litigation, arbitration, action, suit,
investigation or proceeding; (E) has not received notice that any
Governmental Entity has taken, is taking or intends to take action
to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations and has no
knowledge that any such Governmental Entity is considering such
action; (F) has filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all
material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records,
claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by
any Applicable Laws or
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Authorizations and that all such reports,
documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims,
submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and correct
in all material respects on the date filed (or were corrected or
supplemented by a subsequent submission); and (G) has not, either
voluntarily or involuntarily, initiated, conducted, or issued or
caused to be initiated, conducted or issued, any recall, market
withdrawal or replacement, safety alert, post-sale warning,
“dear doctor” letter, or other notice or action
relating to the alleged lack of safety or efficacy of any product
or any alleged product defect or violation and, to the
Company’s knowledge, no third party has initiated, conducted
or intends to initiate any such notice or
action.
2.38 Ineligible
Issuer. At the time of filing
the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment
thereto, at the time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement
and any amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer
(within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Securities Act
Regulations) of the Public Securities and at the date hereof, the
Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as
defined in Rule 405, without taking account of any determination by
the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that
the Company be considered an ineligible issuer.
2.39 [Reserved]
2.40 Industry
Data. The statistical and
market-related data included in or incorporated by reference in
each of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package
and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the
Company reasonably and in good faith believes are reliable and
accurate or represent the Company’s good faith estimates that
are made on the basis of data derived from such
sources.
2.41 Margin
Securities. The Company owns no
“margin securities” as that term is defined in
Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (the “Federal Reserve
Board”), and none of the
proceeds of Offering will be used, directly or indirectly, for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security, for the
purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was
originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for
any other purpose which might cause any of the Common Shares to be
considered a “purpose credit” within the meanings of
Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve
Board.
2.42 Exchange Act
Reports. The Company has filed
in a timely manner all reports required to be filed pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(e), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the
preceding twelve (12) months (except to the extent that Section
15(d) requires reports to be filed pursuant to Sections 13(d) and
13(g) of the Exchange Act, which shall be governed by the next
clause of this sentence); and the Company has filed in a timely
manner all reports required to be filed pursuant to Sections 13(d)
and 13(g) of the Exchange Act since November 30, 2015, except where
the failure to timely file could not reasonably be expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.43 Electronic Road
Show. The Company has made
available a Bona Fide Electronic Road Show in compliance with Rule
433(d)(8)(ii) of the Securities Act Regulations such that no filing
of any “road show” (as defined in Rule 433(h) of the
Securities Act Regulations) is required in connection with the
Offering.
2.44 Integration.
Neither the Company, nor any of its affiliates, nor any person
acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any
offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any
security, under circumstances that would cause the Offering to be
integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the
Securities Act that would require the registration of any such
securities under the Securities Act.
2.45 Title to Real and
Personal Property. The Company
owns or leases all such properties as are necessary to the conduct
of its business as presently operated and as proposed to be
operated as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The Company has good and
marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good and
marketable title to all personal property owned by it, in each case
free and clear of any and all Liens except such as are described in
the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus or such as do not (individually or in the aggregate)
materially affect the value of such property or materially
interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property
by the Company; and any real property and buildings held under
lease or sublease by the Company are held by them under valid,
subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not
material to, and do not materially interfere with, the use made and
proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company.
The Company has not received any notice of any claim adverse to its
ownership of any real or personal property or of any claim against
the continued possession of any real property, whether owned or
held under lease or sublease by the Company.
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2.46 Confidentiality and
Non-Competitions. To the
Company’s knowledge, no director, officer, key employee or
consultant of the Company is subject to any confidentiality,
non-disclosure, non-competition agreement or non-solicitation
agreement with any employer or prior employer that could affect his
ability to be and act in his respective capacity of the Company or
be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change.
2.47 Corporate
Records. The minute books of
the Company have been made available to the Underwriter and
Underwriter’s Counsel, and such books (i) contain minutes of
all material meetings and actions of the Board (including each
Board committee) and stockholders of the Company, and (ii) reflect
all material transactions referred to in such
minutes.
2.48 No
Stabilization. Neither the
Company nor any of its affiliates (within the meaning of Rule 144
under the Securities Act) has taken, directly or indirectly, any
action which constitutes or is designed to cause or result in, or
which could reasonably be expected to constitute, cause or result
in, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security
to facilitate the sale or resale of the Public Securities or to
result in a violation of Regulation M under the Exchange
Act.
2.49 Environmental
Laws. The Company and its
Subsidiaries are in compliance with all foreign, federal, state and
local rules, laws and regulations relating to the use, treatment,
storage and disposal of hazardous or toxic substances or waste and
protection of health and safety or the environment which are
applicable to their businesses (“Environmental
Laws”), except where the
failure to comply would not, singularly or in the aggregate, result
in a Material Adverse Change. There has been no storage,
generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal,
discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of toxic or other
wastes or other hazardous substances by, due to, or caused by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, to the Company’s
knowledge, any other entity for whose acts or omissions the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries is or may otherwise be liable) upon any
of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, or upon any other property, in violation
of any law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment,
decree or permit or which would, under any law, statute, ordinance,
rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order, judgment,
decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any
violation or liability which would not have, singularly or in the
aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material
Adverse Change; and there has been no disposal, discharge, emission
or other release of any kind onto such property or into the
environment surrounding such property of any toxic or other wastes
or other hazardous substances with respect to which the Company has
knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission, or
other release of any kind which would not have, singularly or in
the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a
Material Adverse Change.
2.50 Regulatory
Permits. The Company and its
Subsidiaries have such permits, licenses, clearances,
registrations, exemptions, patents, franchises, certificates of
need and other approvals, consents and other authorizations
(“Permits”) issued by the appropriate domestic or
foreign regional, federal, state, or local regulatory agencies or
bodies necessary to conduct the business of the Company, including,
without limitation, any Investigational New Drug Application (an
“IND”), Biologics License Application
(“BLA”) and/or New Drug Application (an
“NDA”), as required by the FDA, the Drug
Enforcement Administration (the “DEA”), or any other Permits issued by domestic
or foreign regional, federal, state, or local agencies or bodies
engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals such as those being
developed by the Company and its Subsidiaries (collectively, the
“Regulatory
Permits”), except for any
of the foregoing that would not reasonably be expected to,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Change;
the Company is in compliance in all material respects with the
requirements of the Regulatory Permits, and all of such Regulatory
Permits are valid and in full force and effect; the Company has not
received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation,
termination, modification or impairment of rights of any of the
Regulatory Permits that, individually or in the aggregate, if
the
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subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or
finding, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Change; the Company has not failed to submit to the FDA any
IND, BLA or NDA necessary to conduct the business of the Company,
any such filings that were required to be made were in material
compliance with applicable laws when filed, and no material
deficiencies have been asserted by the FDA with respect to any such
filings or submissions that were made.
2.51 Regulatory
Filings. Neither the Company
nor its Subsidiaries has failed to file with the applicable
regulatory authorities (including, without limitation, the FDA, or
any foreign, federal, state, provincial or local governmental or
regulatory authority performing functions similar to those
performed by the FDA) any required filing, declaration, listing,
registration, report or submission, except for such failures that,
individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse
Change; except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, all such filings,
declarations, listings, registrations, reports or submissions were
in compliance with applicable laws when filed and no deficiencies
have been asserted by any applicable regulatory authority with
respect to any such filings, declarations, listings, registrations,
reports or submissions, except for any deficiencies that,
individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse
Change.
2.52 Compliance with Health
Care Laws. Each of the Company
and its Subsidiaries is, and at all times has been, in compliance
in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws, and
has not engaged in activities which are, as applicable, cause for
false claims liability, civil penalties, or mandatory or permissive
exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid, or any other state or federal
health care program. For purposes of this Agreement, “Health
Care Laws” means: (i) the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 301 et seq.), the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq.), and the regulations
promulgated thereunder; (ii) all applicable federal, state, local
and all applicable foreign health care related fraud and abuse
laws, including, without limitation, the U.S. Anti-Kickback Statute
(42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)), the U.S. Physician Payment
Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h), the U.S. Civil False
Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the criminal False
Claims Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)), all criminal laws
relating to health care fraud and abuse, including, but not limited
to, 18 U.S.C. Sections 286 and 287, and the health care fraud
criminal provisions under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.), the
exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7), the civil monetary
penalties law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a), HIPAA, as amended by the
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
(42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.), and the regulations promulgated
pursuant to such statutes; (iii) Medicare (Title XVIII of the
Social Security Act); (iv) Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social
Security Act); (v) the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.
§§ 801 et seq.) and the regulations promulgated
thereunder; and (vi) any and all other applicable health care laws
and regulations. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the
Company, any subsidiary has received notice of any claim, action,
suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration
or other action from any court or arbitrator or governmental or
regulatory authority or third party alleging that any it or any
Subsidiary is in material violation of any Health Care Laws, and,
to the Company’s knowledge, no such claim, action, suit,
proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or
other action is threatened. Neither the Company nor, to the
knowledge of the Company, any Subsidiary is a party to or has any
ongoing reporting obligations pursuant to any corporate integrity
agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, monitoring agreements,
consent decrees, settlement orders, plans of correction or similar
agreements with or imposed by any governmental or regulatory
authority. Additionally, neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor
any of its respective employees, officers or directors has been
excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any U.S.
federal health care program or human clinical research or, to the
knowledge of the Company, is subject to a governmental inquiry,
investigation, proceeding, or other similar action that could
reasonably be expected to result in debarment, suspension, or
exclusion.
2.53 Studies.
The clinical, pre-clinical and other studies and tests conducted by
or on behalf of or sponsored by the Company or its subsidiaries
that are described or referred to in the Registration Statement,
the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus were and, if
still pending, are being conducted in accordance in all material
respects with all statutes, laws, rules and regulations, as
applicable (including, without limitation, those administered by
the FDA or by any foreign, federal, state or local governmental or
regulatory authority performing functions similar to those
performed by the FDA). The descriptions of the results of such
studies and tests that are described or referred to in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus are accurate and complete in all material respects and
fairly present the published data derived from such studies and
tests, and each of the Company and its subsidiaries has no
knowledge of other studies or tests the results of which are
materially inconsistent with or otherwise call into question the
results described or referred to in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. Except as described
in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, neither the Company nor its subsidiaries has
received any notices or other correspondence from the FDA or any
other foreign, federal, state or
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local governmental or regulatory authority
performing functions similar to those performed by the FDA with
respect to any ongoing clinical or pre-clinical studies or tests
requiring the termination or suspension of such studies or tests.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Company makes no representation or
warranty that the results of any studies, tests or preclinical or
clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company will be
sufficient to obtain governmental approval from the FDA or any
foreign, state or local governmental body exercising comparable
authority.
2.54 eXtensible Business
Reporting Language. The
interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included
in or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
fairly presents the information called for in all material respects
and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s
rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
3.
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Covenants
of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees as
follows:
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3.1 Amendments to
Registration Statement. The
Company shall deliver to the Underwriter, prior to filing, any
amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus
proposed to be filed after the Effective Date and not file any such
amendment or supplement to which the Underwriter shall reasonably
object in writing.
3.2 Federal Securities
Laws.
3.2.1 Compliance.
The Company, subject to Section 3.2.2, shall comply with the
requirements of Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A of the Securities Act
Regulations, and will notify the Underwriter promptly, and confirm
the notice in writing, (i) when any post-effective amendment to the
Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus shall have been filed and when any post-effective
amendment to the Registration Statement shall become effective;
(ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission; (iii) of
any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration
Statement or any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or for
additional information; (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of
any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement or any post-effective amendment or of any order
preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or of the suspension
of the qualification of the Public Securities for offering or sale
in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or, to the
Company’s knowledge, threatening of any proceedings for any
of such purposes or of any examination pursuant to Section 8(d) or
8(e) of the Securities Act concerning the Registration Statement;
and (v) if the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding under
Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the Offering of
the Public Securities and Underwriter’s Securities. The
Company shall effect all filings required under Rule 424(b) of the
Securities Act Regulations, in the manner and within the time
period required by Rule 424(b) (without reliance on Rule
424(b)(8)), and shall take such steps as it deems necessary to
ascertain promptly whether the form of prospectus transmitted for
filing under Rule 424(b) was received for filing by the Commission
and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such
prospectus. The Company shall use its best efforts to prevent the
issuance of any stop order, prevention or suspension and, if any
such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest
possible moment.
3.2.2 Continued
Compliance. The Company shall
comply with the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations, the
Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations so as to permit the
completion of the distribution of the Public Securities as
contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement,
the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. If at any time
when a prospectus relating to the Public Securities is (or, but for
the exception afforded by Rule 172 of the Securities Act
Regulations (“Rule 172”), would be) required by the Securities Act
to be delivered in connection with sales of the Public Securities,
any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which
it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of Underwriter’s
Counsel or counsel for the Company, to (i) amend the Registration
Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not include
an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading; (ii) amend or supplement the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order that the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be,
will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing
at the time it is delivered to a purchaser or (iii) amend the
Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, in order
to comply with the requirements of the Securities Act or the
Securities Act Regulations, the Company will promptly (A) give the
Underwriter notice of such event; (B) prepare any
amendment
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or supplement as may be necessary to correct such
statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus comply with such
requirements and, a reasonable amount of time prior to any proposed
filing or use, furnish the Underwriter with copies of any such
amendment or supplement and (C) file with the Commission any such
amendment or supplement; provided that the Company shall not file or use any
such amendment or supplement to which the Underwriter or
Underwriter Counsel shall reasonably object. The Company will
furnish to the Underwriter such number of copies of such amendment
or supplement as the Underwriter may reasonably request. The
Company has given the Underwriter notice of any filings made
pursuant to the Exchange Act or the Exchange Act Regulations within
forty-eight (48) hours prior to the Applicable Time. The Company
shall give the Underwriter notice of its intention to make any such
filing from the Applicable Time until the later of the Closing Date
and the exercise in full or expiration of the Over-allotment Option
specified in Section 1.2 hereof and will furnish the Underwriter
with copies of the related document(s) a reasonable amount of time
prior to such proposed filing, as the case may be, and will not
file or use any such document to which the Underwriter or counsel
for the Underwriter shall reasonably object.
3.2.3 Exchange Act
Registration. So long as any of
the Warrants remain outstanding, the Company shall use its
commercially reasonable efforts to (A) maintain the registration of
the Common Shares under the Exchange Act and (B) not deregister the
Common Shares under the Exchange Act without the prior written
consent of the Underwriter, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld. Nothing in this Section 3.2.3, however, shall prevent a
sale, merger or similar transaction involving the
Company.
3.2.4 Free Writing
Prospectuses. The Company
agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the
Underwriter, it shall not make any offer relating to the Public
Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing
prospectus,” or a portion thereof, required to be filed by
the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under
Rule 433; provided that the Underwriter shall be deemed to have
consented to each Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus hereto
and any “road show that is a written communication”
within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i) that has been reviewed by
the Underwriter. The Company represents that it has treated or
agrees that it will treat each such free writing prospectus
consented to, or deemed consented to, by the Underwriter as an
“issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule
433, and that it has complied and will comply with the applicable
requirements of Rule 433 with respect thereto, including timely
filing with the Commission where required, legending and record
keeping. If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development
as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted
or would conflict with the information contained in the
Registration Statement or included or would include an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances existing at that subsequent time,
not misleading, the Company will promptly notify the Underwriter
and will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such
conflict, untrue statement or omission.
3.3 Delivery to the
Underwriter of Registration Statements. The Company has delivered or made available or
shall deliver or make available to the Underwriter and
Underwriter’s Counsel, without charge, signed copies of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment
thereto (including exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by
reference therein and documents incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference therein) and signed copies of all
consents and certificates of experts, and upon request will also
deliver to the Underwriter, without charge, a conformed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment
thereto (without exhibits) for the Underwriter. The copies of the
Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished to the
Underwriter will be identical to the electronically transmitted
copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except
to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
3.4 Delivery to the
Underwriter of Prospectuses.
The Company has delivered or made available or will deliver or make
available to the Underwriter, without charge, as many copies of
each Preliminary Prospectus as such Underwriter reasonably
requested, and the Company hereby consents to the use of such
copies for purposes permitted by the Securities Act. The Company
will furnish to the Underwriter, without charge, during the period
when a prospectus relating to the Public Securities is (or, but for
the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to be
delivered under the Securities Act, such number of copies of the
Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as such Underwriter may
reasonably request. The Prospectus and any amendments or
supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriter will be identical
to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the
Commission pursuant to XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by
Regulation S-T.
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3.5 Effectiveness and
Events Requiring Notice to the Underwriter. The Company shall, except to the extent the
Company participates in a merger or other business combination
transaction, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the
Registration Statement to remain effective with a current
prospectus through and including the expiration date of the
Warrants (or the date all Warrants have been exercised or duly
called, if earlier).The Company shall notify the Representative
immediately and confirm the notice in writing: (i) of the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement and any amendment
thereto; (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order
or of the initiation, or, to the Company’s knowledge, the
threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose; (iii) of the
issuance by any state securities commission of any proceedings for
the suspension of the qualification of the Public Securities for
offering or sale in any jurisdiction or of the initiation,
or, to the Company’s knowledge, the threatening, of any
proceeding for that purpose; (iv) of the mailing and delivery to
the Commission for filing of any amendment or supplement to the
Registration Statement or Prospectus; (v) of the receipt of any
comments or request for any additional information from the
Commission; and (vi) of the happening of any event during the
period described in this Section 3.5 that, in the reasonable
judgment of the Company, makes any statement of a material fact
made in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus untrue or that requires the making of any changes
in (a) the Registration Statement in order to make the statements
therein not misleading, or (b) in the Pricing Disclosure Package or
the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If
the Commission or any state securities commission shall enter a
stop order or suspend such qualification at any time, the Company
shall use its commercially reasonable effort to obtain promptly the
lifting of such order.
3.6 Review of Financial
Statements. For a period
of five (5) years after the date of this Agreement, the Company, at
its expense, shall cause its regularly engaged independent
registered public accounting firm to review (but not audit) the
Company’s financial statements for each of the three (3)
fiscal quarters immediately preceding the announcement of any
quarterly financial information, provided that such provision shall
not prevent a sale, merger or similar transaction involving the
Company.
3.7 Listing.
The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to
maintain the listing of the Common Shares, the Warrant Shares and
the Registered Warrant Shares on the Exchange for at least five (5)
years from the date of this Agreement. Nothing in this Section
3.7, however, shall prevent a sale, merger or similar transaction
involving the Company.
3.8 Financial Public
Relations Firm. As of the
Effective Date, the Company shall have retained a financial public
relations firm reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter and the
Company, which firm shall be experienced in assisting issuers in
public offerings of securities and in their relations with their
security holders, and shall retain such firm or another firm
reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter for a period of not less
than two (2) years after the Effective Date.
3.9 Reports to the
Underwriter.
3.9.1 Periodic Reports,
etc. For a period of two (2)
years after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall furnish
or make available to the Underwriter upon request copies of such
financial statements and other periodic and special reports as the
Company from time to time furnishes generally to holders of any
class of its securities and also promptly furnish to the
Underwriter: (i) a copy of each periodic report the Company shall
be required to file with the Commission under the Exchange Act and
the Exchange Act Regulations; (ii) a copy of every press release
and every news item and article with respect to the Company or its
affairs which was released by the Company; (iii) a copy of each
Report on Form 6-K prepared and filed by the Company; (iv) five (5)
copies of each registration statement filed by the Company under
the Securities Act; and (v) such additional documents and
information with respect to the Company and the affairs of any
future subsidiaries of the Company as the Underwriter may from time
to time reasonably request;provided the Underwriter shall sign, if requested by
the Company, a Regulation FD compliant confidentiality agreement
which is reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter and Underwriter
Counsel in connection with the Underwriter’s receipt of such
information. Documents filed with the Commission pursuant to its
XXXXX system shall be deemed to have been delivered or made
available to the Underwriter pursuant to this Section
3.9.1.
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3.9.2 Transfer Agent;
Transfer Sheets. For a period
of two (2) years after the date of this Agreement, the Company
shall retain a transfer agent and registrar acceptable to the
Underwriter (the “Transfer
Agent”) and shall furnish
to the Underwriter at the Company’s sole cost and expense
such transfer sheets of the Company’s securities as the
Underwriter may reasonably request, including the daily and monthly
consolidated transfer sheets of the Transfer Agent and DTC. AST
Trust Company (Canada) and American Stock Transfer & Trust
Company LLC are acceptable to the Underwriter to act as Transfer
Agent for the Common Shares.
3.9.3 Trading
Reports. During such time as
the Common Shares, the Warrant Shares and the Registered Warrant
Shares are listed on the Exchange, the Company shall cooperate to make
available to the Underwriter, at the Company’s expense, such
reports published by the Exchange relating to price trading of the
Public Securities, as the Underwriter shall reasonably
request. The parties acknowledge that the Exchange makes such
material available without charge on the Exchange’s Internet
website.
3.10 Payment of
Expenses. The
Company covenants and agrees with the Underwriter that on the
Closing Date the Company will pay or cause to be paid to the
Underwriter (i) a management fee equal to one percent (1%) of the
gross proceeds raised in the Offering, (ii) $35,000 for
non-accountable expenses, (iii) up to $100,000 for invoiced fees
and expenses of legal counsel and other out-of-pocket expenses, and
(iv) for the services of an escrow agent and any actual
out-of-pocket cost of such clearing agent settlement and financing,
so long as the cost does not exceed $10,000; provided, however,
that such reimbursement amount in no way shall limit the
indemnification and contribution provisions of this Agreement. The
Underwriter may deduct from the net proceeds of the Offering
payable to the Company on the Closing Date, or the Option Closing
Date, if any, the expenses set forth herein to be paid by the
Company to the Underwriter.
3.11 Application of Net
Proceeds. The Company shall
apply the net proceeds from the Offering received by it in a manner
consistent with the application thereof described under the caption
“Use of Proceeds” in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
3.12 Delivery of Earnings
Statements to Security Holders.
The Company shall make generally available to its security holders
as soon as practicable, but not later than the first day of the
fifteenth (15th) full calendar month following the date of this
Agreement, an earnings statement (which need not be certified by an
independent registered public accounting firm unless required by
the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, but which
shall satisfy the provisions of Rule 158(a) under Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act) covering a period of at least twelve (12)
consecutive months beginning after the date of this
Agreement.
3.13 Stabilization.
Neither the Company nor, to its knowledge, any of its employees,
directors or shareholders (without the consent of the Underwriter)
has taken or shall take, directly or indirectly, any action
designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be
expected to cause or result in, under Regulation M of the Exchange
Act, or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of
any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the
Public Securities.
3.14 Internal
Controls. Except as described
in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, the Company shall maintain a system of internal
accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances
that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization; (ii)
transactions are recorded as necessary in order to permit
preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and to
maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is
permitted only in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences.
3.15 Accountants.
As of the date of this Agreement, the Company shall retain an
independent registered public accounting firm reasonably acceptable
to the Underwriter, and the Company shall continue to retain a
nationally recognized independent registered public accounting firm
for a period of at least three (3) years after the date of this
Agreement. The Underwriter acknowledges that MNP LLP is acceptable
to the Underwriter.
3.16 FINRA.
For a period of 90 days from the Closing Date, the Company shall
advise the Underwriter (who shall make an appropriate filing with
FINRA) if it is or becomes aware that (i) any officer or director
of the Company, (ii) any beneficial owner of 5% or more of any
class of the Company's securities or (iii) any beneficial owner of
the Company's unregistered equity securities which were acquired
during the 180 days immediately preceding the filing of the
Registration Statement is or becomes an affiliate or associated
person of a FINRA member participating in the Offering (as
determined in accordance with the rules and regulations of
FINRA).
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3.17 No Fiduciary
Duties. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriter’s responsibility
to the Company is solely contractual in nature and that none of the
Underwriter or their affiliates or any selling agent shall be
deemed to be acting in a fiduciary capacity, or otherwise owes any
fiduciary duty to the Company or any of its affiliates in
connection with the Offering and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
3.18 Company Lock-Up
Agreements.
3.18.1 Restriction on Sales
of Capital Stock. The Company,
on behalf of itself and any successor entity, agrees that, without
the prior written consent of the Underwriter, it will not, for a
period of ninety (90) days after the date of this Agreement (the
“Lock-Up
Period”), (i) offer,
pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to
purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any
option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer
or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital stock
of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company; (ii) file
or cause to be filed any registration statement with the Commission
relating to the offering of any shares of capital stock of the
Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company; or (iii)
enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another,
in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership
of capital stock of the Company, whether any such transaction
described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above is to be settled by
delivery of shares of capital stock of the Company or such other
securities, in cash or otherwise.
The restrictions contained in this Section 3.18.1
shall not apply to (i) the Common Shares, Firm Warrants, Option
Warrants, Pre-Funded Warrants or Underwriter’s Warrants to be
sold hereunder, (ii) the issuance by the Company of Common Shares
upon the exercise of a stock option or warrant or the conversion of
a security outstanding on the date hereof, which is disclosed in
the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package and
Prospectus, or pursuant to the exercise of the Pre-Funded
Warrants provided that such securities have not been amended
since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such
securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or
conversion price of such securities or to extend the term of such
securities, (iii) the issuance by the
Company of stock options or shares of capital stock of the Company
to employees, officers and directors of the Company pursuant to any
existing equity compensation plan of the Company, or (iv) shares of
capital stock of the Company or securities convertible into shares
of capital stock of the Company that are issued as consideration in
an acquisition, merger or similar strategic transaction approved by
a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided
that such securities are issued as “restricted
securities” (as defined in Rule 144) and carry no
registration rights that require or permit the filing of any
registration statement in connection therewith within ninety (90)
days after the date of this Agreement, and provided that any such
issuance shall only be to a person (or to the equity holders of a
person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating
company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the
business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional
benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not
include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities
primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose
primary business is investing in securities.
3.18.2 Restriction on
Continuous Offerings.
Notwithstanding the restrictions contained in Section 3.18.1, the
Company, on behalf of itself and any successor entity, agrees that,
without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, it will not,
for a period of two (2) years after the date of this Agreement,
directly or indirectly in any “at-the-market” or
continuous equity transaction, offer to sell, sell, contract to
sell, grant any option to sell or otherwise dispose of shares of
capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the
Company.
3.19. Variable Rate
Transactions. From the date
hereof until the five-year anniversary of the Closing Date, the
Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an
agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of Common Share or Common Share equivalents (or a
combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate
Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a
transaction in which the Company enters into, or effects a
transaction under an at-the-market offering agreement, whereby the
Company may issue securities at a future determined price.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the two-year anniversary
of the Closing Date, the Company may
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enter into an at-the-market offering agreement. The Underwriter
shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company
to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to
any right to collect damages.
3.20 Blue Sky
Qualifications. The Company
shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, in cooperation with
the Underwriter, if necessary, to qualify the Public Securities for
offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such
states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the
Underwriter may designate with the consent of the Company and to
maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required to
complete the distribution of the Public
Securities; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file
any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a
foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any
jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself
to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in
which it is not otherwise so subject.
3.21 Reporting
Requirements. The Company,
during the period when a prospectus relating to the Public
Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172,
would be) required to be delivered under the Securities Act, will
file all documents required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to the Exchange Act within the time periods required by
the Exchange Act and Exchange Act Regulations.
3.22 Press
Releases. Prior to the Closing
Date and any Option Closing Date, the Company shall not issue any
press release or other communication directly or indirectly or hold
any press conference with respect to the Company, its condition,
financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business
prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the
ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices
of the Company and of which the Underwriter is notified), without
the prior written consent of the Underwriter, which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld, unless in the judgment of the Company
and its counsel, and after notification to the Underwriter, such
press release or communication is required by
law.
3.23 Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx.
Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company shall at all
times comply with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act in effect from time to time.
4. Conditions
of Underwriter’s Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriter to purchase
and pay for the Public Securities, as provided herein, shall be
subject to (i) the continuing accuracy of the representations and
warranties of the Company as of the date hereof and as of each of
the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any; (ii) the
accuracy of the statements of officers of the Company made pursuant
to the provisions hereof; (iii) the performance by the
Company in all material respects of its obligations hereunder;
and (iv) the following conditions:
4.1 Regulatory
Matters.
4.1.1 Effectiveness of
Registration Statement; Rule 430A Information. The Registration Statement has been declared
effective by the Commission under the Securities Act and, at each
of the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date, no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any
post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the
Securities Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no
proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are
pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, contemplated by the
Commission. The Company has complied with each request (if any)
from the Commission for additional information. The Prospectus
containing the Rule 430A Information shall have been filed with the
Commission in the manner and within the time frame required by Rule
424(b) (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8)) or a post-effective
amendment providing such information shall have been filed with,
and declared effective by, the Commission in accordance with the
requirements of Rule 430A. At the time of such filing, the Company
met the requirements of Form F-1 under the Securities Act. The
Registration Statement meets the requirements set forth in Rule
415(a)(1)(iii) under the Securities Act with respect to the Warrant
Shares and the Registered Warrant Shares and complies with said
Rule.
4.1.2 FINRA
Clearance. On or before the
date of this Agreement, the Underwriter shall have received
clearance from FINRA as to the amount of compensation allowable or
payable to the Underwriter as described in the Registration
Statement.
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4.1.3 Exchange Stock
Market Clearance. On or before
the Closing Date, (i) the Listing of Additional Shares Notification
Form shall have been submitted to The Nasdaq Capital Market with
respect to the Public Securities (including the Warrant Shares and
the Registered Warrant Shares) and (ii) the Company shall have
received conditional listing approval of the Toronto Stock
Exchange with respect to the listing on such exchange of the Firm
Shares, Option Shares and Registered Warrant Shares, subject to
official notice of issuance and the filing of all required
documentation.
4.2 Company Counsel
Matters.
4.2.1 Closing Date Opinion
of Counsel. On the Closing
Date, the Underwriter shall have received the favorable opinion of
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx PC, U.S. counsel to the Company and
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, Canadian counsel to the Company, dated
the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, in a form
reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter.
4.2.2 Option Closing Date
Opinions of Counsel. On the
Option Closing Date, if any, the Underwriter shall have received
the favorable opinions of each counsel listed in Section 4.2.1,
dated the Option Closing Date, addressed to the Underwriter and in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter,
confirming as of the Option Closing Date, the statements made by
such counsels in their respective opinions delivered on the Closing
Date.
4.2.3 Reliance.
In rendering such opinions, such counsel may rely: (i) as to
matters involving the application of laws other than the laws of
the United States, Canada and jurisdictions in which they are
admitted, to the extent such counsel deems proper and to the extent
specified in such opinion, if at all, upon an opinion or opinions
(in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriter)
of other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter, familiar
with the applicable laws; and (ii) as to matters of fact, to the
extent they deem proper, on certificates or other written
statements of officers of the Company and officers of departments
of various jurisdictions having custody of documents respecting the
corporate existence or good standing of the
Company; provided that copies of any such statements or
certificates shall be delivered to Underwriter Counsel if
requested. The opinions of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx PC and
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, and any opinions relied upon by Xxxxxxxx
Ingersoll & Rooney PC and Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP,
respectively, shall include a statement to the effect that it may
be relied upon by Underwriter Counsel in its opinion delivered to
the Underwriter.
4.3 Comfort
Letters.
4.3.1 Cold Comfort
Letter. At the time this
Agreement is executed the Underwriter shall have received a cold
comfort letter from the Auditor containing statements and
information of the type customarily included in accountants’
comfort letters with respect to the financial statements and
certain financial information contained or incorporated or deemed
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, addressed to the
Underwriter and in form and substance satisfactory in all respects
to you and to the Auditor, dated as of the date of this
Agreement.
4.3.2 Bring-down Comfort
Letter. At each of the Closing
Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, the Underwriter shall
have received from the Auditor a letter, dated as of the Closing
Date or the Option Closing Date, as applicable, to the effect that
the Auditor reaffirms the statements made in the letter furnished
pursuant to Section 4.3.1, except that the specified date referred
to shall be a date not more than three (3) business days prior to
the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as
applicable.
4.4 Officers’
Certificates.
4.4.1 Officers’
Certificate. The Company shall
have furnished to the Underwriter a certificate, dated the Closing
Date and any Option Closing Date (if such date is other than the
Closing Date), of its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief
Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers have carefully
examined the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and,
to their knowledge, the Registration Statement and each amendment
thereto, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date (or
any Option Closing Date if such date is other than the Closing
Date) did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and
did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the
Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as of the
Closing Date (or any Option Closing Date if such date is other than
the Closing Date), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as of its
date and as of the Closing Date (or
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any Option Closing Date if such date is other than
the Closing Date), and the Prospectus and each amendment or
supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of the
Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material
fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the Applicable
Time, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a
supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) to their knowledge
after reasonable investigation, as of the Closing Date (or any
Option Closing Date if such date is other than the Closing Date),
the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement
are true and correct in all material respects (except for those
representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, which
shall be true and correct in all respects and except for those
representations and warranties which refer to facts existing at a
specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such date) and
the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all
conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or
prior to the Closing Date (or any Option Closing Date if such date
is other than the Closing Date), and (iv) there has not been,
subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial
statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing
Disclosure Package, any Material Adverse Change in the financial
position or results of operations of the Company, or any change or
development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would reasonably
be expected to involve a Material Adverse Change, in or affecting
the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations,
business, assets or prospects of the Company, except as set forth
in the Prospectus.
4.4.2 Secretary’s
Certificate. At each of the
Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, the Underwriter
shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the
Secretary of the Company, dated the Closing Date or the Option
Date, as the case may be, respectively, certifying: (i) that each
of the Charter and Bylaws is true and complete, has not been modified and is
in full force and effect; (ii) that the resolutions of the
Company’s Board of Directors relating to the Offering are in
full force and effect and have not been modified; (iii) as to the
accuracy and completeness of all correspondence between the Company
or its counsel and the Commission; and (iv) as to the incumbency of
the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such
certificate shall be attached to such
certificate.
4.5 No Material
Changes. Prior to and on each
of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, if any: (i) there
shall have been no Material Adverse Change from the latest dates as
of which such condition is set forth in the Registration Statement
and no change in the authorized capital stock or debt of the
Company, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (ii) no
action, suit or proceeding, at law or in equity, shall have been
pending or threatened against the Company or any director or
officer before or by any court or federal or state commission,
board or other administrative agency wherein an unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding which could reasonably be expected to
cause a Material Adverse Change, except as set forth in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus; (iii) no stop order shall have been issued under the
Securities Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been
initiated or threatened by the Commission; (iv) no action shall
have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order
shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any Governmental
Entity which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Public
Securities or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Change; (v) no injunction, restraining order or order of
any other nature by any federal or state court of competent
jurisdiction shall have been issued which would prevent the
issuance or sale of the Public Securities or result, or potentially
result in a Material Adverse Change; business or operations of the
Company; and (vi) the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and any amendments or
supplements thereto shall contain all material statements which are
required to be stated therein in accordance with the Securities Act
and the Securities Act Regulations and shall conform in all
material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Securities Act Regulations, and neither the Registration Statement,
the Pricing Disclosure Package nor the Prospectus nor any amendment
or supplement thereto shall contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
4.6 No Material
Misstatement or Omission. The
Underwriter shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company
on or prior to the Closing Date and any Option Closing Date that
the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto
contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of
Underwriter Counsel, is material or
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omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of
such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or
is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that
the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an
untrue statement of fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is
material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such
counsel, is material and is necessary in order to make the
statements, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading.
4.7 Delivery of
Agreements.
4.7.1 Lock-Up
Agreements. On or before the
date of this Agreement, the Company shall have delivered to the
Underwriter executed copies of the Lock-Up Agreements from each of
the persons listed in Schedule
2 hereto.
4.7.2 Pre-Funded Warrant
Agreements. On the Closing
Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Underwriter executed
copies of the Pre-Funded Warrant Agreements.
4.7.3 Warrant
Agreements. On the Closing Date
and each Option Closing Date if applicable, the Company shall have
delivered to the Underwriter executed copies of the Warrant
Agreements.
4.7.4 Underwriter’s
Warrant Agreement. On the
Closing Date and each Option Closing Date if applicable, the
Company shall have delivered to the Underwriter executed copies of
the Underwriter’s Warrant Agreement.
4.8 Additional
Documents. At the Closing Date
and at each Option Closing Date (if any) Underwriter Counsel shall
have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may
reasonably require for the purpose of enabling Underwriter Counsel
to deliver an opinion to the Underwriter, or in order to evidence
the accuracy of any of the representations or warranties, or the
fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all
proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance
and sale of the Public Securities and the Underwriter’s
Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and
substance to the Underwriter and Underwriter
Counsel.
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Indemnification.
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5.1 Indemnification of the
Underwriter.
5.1.1 General.
Subject to the conditions set forth below, the Company agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriter, its affiliates and
each of its and their respective directors, officers, members,
employees, representatives and agents and each person, if any, who
controls any such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of
the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively
the “Underwriter Indemnified
Parties,” and each an
“Underwriter Indemnified
Party”), against any and
all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever
(including but not limited to any and all legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending
against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim
whatsoever, whether arising out of any action between any of the
Underwriter Indemnified Parties and the Company or between any of
the Underwriter Indemnified Parties and any third party, or
otherwise) to which they or any of them may become subject under
the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any other statute or at
common law or otherwise or under the laws of foreign countries,
arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in (i) the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Preliminary
Prospectus, the Prospectus or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
(as from time to time each may be amended and supplemented); (ii)
any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the
approval of, the Company in connection with the marketing of the
Offering, including any “road show” or investor
presentations made to investors by the Company (whether in person
or electronically); or (iii) any application or other document or
written communication (in this Section 5, collectively called
“application”) executed by the Company or based upon
written information furnished by the Company in any jurisdiction in
order to qualify the Public Securities under the securities laws
thereof or filed with the Commission, any state securities
commission or agency, the Exchange or any other national securities
exchange; or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading, unless such statement or
omission was made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, the
Underwriter’s Information. With respect to any untrue
statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made
in the Pricing Disclosure Package, the indemnity agreement
contained in this Section 5.1.1 shall not inure to the benefit of
any Underwriter Indemnified Party to the extent that any loss,
liability, claim, damage or expense of such
Underwriter
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Indemnified Party results from the fact that a
copy of the Prospectus was not given or sent to the person
asserting any such loss, liability, claim or damage at or prior to
the written confirmation of sale of the Public Securities to such
person as required by the Securities Act and the Securities Act
Regulations, and if the untrue statement or omission has been
corrected in the Prospectus, unless such failure to deliver the
Prospectus was a result of non-compliance by the Company with its
obligations under Section 3.3 hereof.
5.1.2 Procedure.
If any action is brought against an Underwriter Indemnified Party
in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company
pursuant to Section 5.1.1, such Underwriter Indemnified Party shall
promptly notify the Company in writing of the institution of such
action and the Company shall assume the defense of such action,
including the employment and fees and expenses of counsel (subject
to the reasonable approval of such Underwriter Indemnified Party)
and payment of actual expenses. Such Underwriter Indemnified Party
shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such
case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the
expense of such Underwriter Indemnified Party unless (i) the
employment of such counsel at the expense of the Company shall have
been authorized in writing by the Company in connection with the
defense of such action, (ii) the Company shall not have employed
counsel to have charge of the defense of such action promptly after
notice of commencement of the action, (iii) such indemnified party
or parties shall have reasonably concluded that there may be
defenses available to it or them which are different from or
additional to those available to the Company (in which case the
Company shall not have the right to direct the defense of such
action on behalf of the indemnified party or parties),
(iv) such indemnified party or parties shall have
reasonably concluded that a conflict or potential conflict exists
(based on advice of counsel to such indemnified party) between the
indemnified party or parties and the indemnifying party or (v) the
Company has not employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
indemnified party to assume the defense of such action in any of
which events the reasonable fees and expenses of not more than one
additional firm of attorneys selected by the Underwriter
Indemnified Party (in addition to local counsel) shall be borne by
the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, if any Underwriter Indemnified Party shall assume the
defense of such action as provided above, the Company shall have
the right to approve the terms of any settlement of such action,
which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
5.2 Indemnification of the
Company. The Underwriter agrees
to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its
officers who signed the Registration Statement and persons who
control the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and
all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the
foregoing indemnity from the Company to the Underwriter, as
incurred, but only with respect untrue statements or omissions, or
alleged untrue statements or omissions made in the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure
Package or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or in
any application, in reliance upon, and in strict conformity with,
the Underwriter’s Information. In case any action shall be
brought against the Company or any other person so indemnified
based on any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement,
the Pricing Disclosure Package or Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto or any application, and in respect of which
indemnity may be sought against any Underwriter, such Underwriter
shall have the rights and duties given to the Company, and the
Company and each other person so indemnified shall have the rights
and duties given to the Underwriter by the provisions of Section
5.1.2. The Company agrees promptly to notify the Underwriter of the
commencement of any litigation or proceedings against the Company
or any of its officers, directors or any person, if any, who
controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, in connection
with the issuance and sale of the Public Securities or in
connection with the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure
Package, the Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus.
5.3 Contribution.
5.3.1 Contribution
Rights. If the indemnification
provided for in this Section 5 shall for any reason be unavailable
to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
Section 5.1 or 5.2 in respect of any loss, claim, damage or
liability, or any action in respect thereof, referred to therein,
then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such
indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or
liability, or action in respect thereof, (i) in such proportion as
shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by
the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriter, on the other,
from the Offering of
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the Public Securities, or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative
benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative
fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriter, on the
other, with respect to the statements or omissions that resulted in
such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect
thereof, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and
the Underwriter, on the other, with respect to such Offering shall
be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds
from the Offering of the Public Securities purchased under this
Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company, as
set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus, on the
one hand, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions
received by the Underwriter with respect to the Common Shares
purchased under this Agreement, as set forth in the table on the
cover page of the Prospectus, on the other hand. The relative fault
shall be determined by reference to whether the untrue or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission
to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the
Company or the Underwriter, the intent of the parties and their
relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to
correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the
Underwriter agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contributions pursuant to this Section 5.3.1 were to be determined
by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that
does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to
herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a
result of the loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in
respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 5.3.1 shall be
deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 5.3.1, any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in
connection with investigating or defending any such action or
claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5.3.1, in no
event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in
excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and
commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the
Offering of the Public Securities exceeds the amount of any damages
that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason
of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged
omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within
the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be
entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation.
5.3.2 Contribution
Procedure. Within fifteen (15)
days after receipt by any party to this Agreement (or its
representative) of notice of the commencement of any action, suit
or proceeding, such party will, if a claim for contribution in
respect thereof is to be made against another party
(“contributing
party”), notify the
contributing party of the commencement thereof, but the failure to
so notify the contributing party will not relieve it from any
liability which it may have to any other party other than for
contribution hereunder. In case any such action, suit or proceeding
is brought against any party, and such party notifies a
contributing party or its representative of the commencement
thereof within the aforesaid fifteen (15) days, the contributing
party will be entitled to participate therein with the notifying
party and any other contributing party similarly notified. Any such
contributing party shall not be liable to any party seeking
contribution on account of any settlement of any claim, action or
proceeding affected by such party seeking contribution on account
of any settlement of any claim, action or proceeding affected by
such party seeking contribution without the written consent of such
contributing party, which consent will not be unreasonably
withheld. The contribution provisions contained in this Section
5.3.2 are intended to supersede, to the extent permitted by law,
any right to contribution under the Securities Act, the Exchange
Act or otherwise available.
6.
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6.1 [Reserved]
6.2 Default Exceeding 10%
of Firm Securities or Option Securities. In the event that the Underwriter shall default
in its obligation to purchase the Firm Securities or the Option
Securities, if the Over-allotment Option is exercised hereunder,
with respect to more than 10% of the Firm Securities or Option
Securities, you may in your discretion arrange for yourself or for
another party or parties to purchase such Firm Securities or Option
Securities to which such default relates on the terms contained
herein. If, within one (1) Business Day after such default relating
to more than 10% of the Firm Securities or Option Securities, you
do not arrange for the purchase of such Firm Securities or Option
Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period
of one (1) Business Day within which to procure another party or
parties satisfactory to you to purchase said Firm Securities or
Option Securities on such terms. In the event that neither you nor
the Company arrange for the purchase of the Firm Securities or
Option Securities to which a default relates as
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provided in this Section 6, this Agreement will
automatically be terminated by you or the Company without liability
on the part of the Company (except as provided in Sections 3.9 and
5 hereof) or the Underwriter (except as provided in Section 5
hereof); provided, however, that if such default occurs with respect to the
Option Securities, this Agreement will not terminate as to the Firm
Securities.
6.3 Postponement of
Closing Date. In the event that
the Firm Securities or Option Securities to which the default
relates are to be purchased by another party or parties as
aforesaid, you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the
Closing Date or Option Closing Date for a reasonable period, but
not in any event exceeding five (5) Business Days, in order to
effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or in any other documents and arrangements, and the
Company agrees to file promptly any amendment to the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that in
the opinion of counsel for the Underwriter may thereby be made
necessary. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include
any party substituted under this Section 6 with like effect as if
it had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to
such Common Shares.
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7.1 Board Composition and
Board Designations. The Company
shall ensure that: (i) the qualifications of the persons serving as
members of the Board of Directors and the overall composition of
the Board comply with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act, with the Exchange Act
and with the listing rules of the Exchange or any other national
securities exchange, as the case may be, in the event the Company
seeks to have its Public Securities listed on another exchange or
quoted on an automated quotation system, and (ii) if applicable, at
least one (1) member of the Audit Committee of the Board of
Directors qualifies as an “audit committee financial
expert,” as such term is defined under Regulation S-K and the
listing rules of the Exchange.
7.2 Prohibition on Press
Releases and Public Announcements. The Company shall not issue press releases or
engage in any other publicity, without the Underwriter’s
prior written consent, for a period ending at 5:00 p.m., Eastern
time, on the first (1st) Business Day following the forty-fifth
(45th) day after the Closing Date, other than normal
and customary releases issued in the ordinary course of the
Company’s business or as may be required to comply with
applicable law or the requirements of the
Exchange.
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8.1 Effective
Date. This Agreement shall
become effective when both the Company and the Underwriter have
executed the same and delivered counterparts of such signatures to
the other party.
8.2 Termination.
The Underwriter shall have the right to terminate this Agreement at
any time prior to any Closing Date, (i) if any domestic or
international event or act or occurrence has materially disrupted,
or in your opinion will in the immediate future materially disrupt,
general securities markets in the United States; or (ii) if trading
on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC shall
have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum
prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for
prices for securities shall have been required by FINRA or by order
of the Commission or any other government authority having
jurisdiction; or (iii) if the United States shall have become
involved in a new war or an increase in major hostilities; or (iv)
if a banking moratorium has been declared by a New York State or
federal authority; or (v) if a moratorium on foreign exchange
trading has been declared which materially adversely impacts the
United States securities markets; or (vi) if the Company shall have
sustained a material loss by fire, flood, accident, hurricane,
earthquake, theft, sabotage or other calamity or malicious act
which, whether or not such loss shall have been insured, will, in
your opinion, make it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of
the Firm Securities or Option Securities; or (vii) if the Company
is in material breach of any of its representations, warranties or
covenants hereunder; or (viii) if the Underwriter shall have become
aware after the date hereof of such a Material Adverse Change in
the conditions or prospects of the Company, or such adverse
material change in general market conditions as in the
Underwriter’s judgment would make it impracticable to proceed
with the offering, sale and/or delivery of the Public Securities or
to enforce contracts made by the Underwriter for the sale of the
Public Securities.
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8.3 Expenses.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, except
in the case of a default by the Underwriter, pursuant to Section
6.2 above, in the event that this Agreement is terminated prior to
the Closing Date for any reason whatsoever, within the time
specified herein or any extensions thereof pursuant to the terms
herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay to the Underwriter
accountable out-of-pocket expenses related to the transactions
contemplated herein then due and payable (including the fees and
disbursements of Underwriter Counsel) up to $50,000 and upon demand
the Company shall pay the full amount thereof to the
Underwriter; provided, however, that such expense cap in no way limits or
impairs the indemnification and contribution provisions of this
Agreement.
8.4 Indemnification.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision contained in this Agreement,
any election hereunder or any termination of this Agreement, and
whether or not this Agreement is otherwise carried out, the
provisions of Section 5 shall remain in full force and effect and
shall not be in any way affected by, such election or termination
or failure to carry out the terms of this Agreement or any part
hereof.
8.5 Representations,
Warranties, Agreements to Survive. All representations, warranties and agreements
contained in this Agreement or in certificates of officers of the
Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in
full force and effect regardless of (i) any investigation made by
or on behalf of any Underwriter or its Affiliates or selling
agents, any person controlling any Underwriter, its officers or
directors or any person controlling the Company or (ii) delivery of
and payment for the Public Securities.
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9.1 Notices.
All communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise
specifically provided, shall be in writing and shall be mailed
(registered or certified mail, return receipt requested),
personally delivered, electronically sent via email or sent by
facsimile transmission and confirmed and shall be deemed given when
so delivered, emailed or faxed and confirmed or if mailed, two (2)
days after such mailing.
If to the Underwriter:
X.X. Xxxxxxxxxx & Co., LLC
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Head of Investment Banking
Fax No.: 000-000-0000
with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Hampton LLP
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Esq.
Fax No.: (000) 000-0000
If to the Company:
00 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, X0X 0X0
Attention: Xx. Xxxxx Xxxxx
Fax No: (000) 000-0000
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with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
Xxxxx 0000, 0 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, X0X 0X0,
Attention: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esq. (facsimile: (000)
000-0000)
Fax No: (000) 000-0000
and to
Xxxxxxxx Ingersoll & Rooney PC
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx XxXxxxxxx, Esq.
and Xxxxx North, Esq.
Fax No: (000) 000-0000
9.2 Research Analyst
Independence. The Company
acknowledges that the Underwriter’s research analysts and
research departments are required to be independent from its
investment banking division and are subject to certain regulations
and internal policies, and that the Underwriter’s research
analysts may hold views and make statements or investment
recommendations and/or publish research reports with respect to the
Company and/or the Offering that differ from the views of their
investment banking division. The Company acknowledges that the
Underwriter is a full service securities firm and as such from time
to time, subject to applicable securities laws, rules and
regulations, may effect transactions for its own account or the
account of its customers and hold long or short positions in debt
or equity securities of the Company; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 9.2 shall relieve
the Underwriter of any responsibility or liability it may otherwise
bear in connection with activities in violation of applicable
securities laws, rules or regulations.
9.3 Headings.
The headings contained herein are for the sole purpose of
convenience of reference, and shall not in any way limit or affect
the meaning or interpretation of any of the terms or provisions of
this Agreement.
9.4 Amendment.
This Agreement may only be amended by a written instrument executed
by each of the parties hereto.
9.5 Entire
Agreement. This Agreement
(together with the other agreements and documents being delivered
pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement) constitutes the
entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject
matter hereof and thereof, and supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings of the parties, oral and written, with respect to
the subject matter hereof. Except as otherwise contemplated herein,
it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that all other
binding terms and conditions of that certain engagement letter
between the Company and the Underwriter dated August 15, 2018 (the
“Engagement
Letter”), shall remain
valid and binding on, and enforceable against, the Company and in
accordance with the terms thereof. In the event of any conflict
between the terms of the Engagement Letter and the Agreement, the
terms of the Agreement shall prevail.
9.6 Binding
Effect. This Agreement shall
inure solely to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the
Underwriter, the Company and the controlling persons, directors and
officers referred to in Section 5 hereof, and their respective
successors, legal representatives, heirs and assigns, and no other
person shall have or be construed to have any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or in respect of or by virtue of this
Agreement or any provisions herein contained. The term
“successors and assigns” shall not include a purchaser,
in its capacity as such, of securities from the
Underwriter.
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9.7 Governing Law; Consent
to Jurisdiction; Trial by Jury.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving
effect to conflict of laws principles thereof. The Company hereby
agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out
of, or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and
enforced in the New York Supreme Court, County of New York, or in
the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York, and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which
jurisdiction shall be exclusive. The Company hereby waives any
objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts
represent an inconvenient forum. Any such process or summons to be
served upon the Company may be served by transmitting a copy
thereof by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested,
postage prepaid, addressed to it at the address set forth in
Section 9.1 hereof. Such mailing shall be deemed personal service
and shall be legal and binding upon the Company in any action,
proceeding or claim. The Company and the Underwriter agrees that
the prevailing party(ies) in any such action shall be entitled to
recover from the other party(ies) all of its reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses relating to such action or
proceeding and/or incurred in connection with the preparation
therefor. The Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted
by applicable law, on behalf of its shareholders and affiliates)
and the Underwriter hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by
jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby.
9.8 Execution in
Counterparts. This Agreement
may be executed in one or more counterparts, and by the different
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which shall be
deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same agreement, and shall become effective
when one or more counterparts has been signed by each of the
parties hereto and delivered to each of the other parties hereto.
Delivery of a signed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or
email/pdf transmission shall constitute valid and sufficient
delivery thereof.
9.9 Waiver,
etc. The failure of any of the
parties hereto to at any time enforce any of the provisions of this
Agreement shall not be deemed or construed to be a waiver of any
such provision, nor to in any way effect the validity of this
Agreement or any provision hereof or the right of any of the
parties hereto to thereafter enforce each and every provision of
this Agreement. No waiver of any breach, non-compliance or
non-fulfillment of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be
effective unless set forth in a written instrument executed by the
party or parties against whom or which enforcement of such waiver
is sought; and no waiver of any such breach, non-compliance or
non-fulfillment shall be construed or deemed to be a waiver of any
other or subsequent breach, non-compliance or
non-fulfillment.
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the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding between the
Underwriter and the Company, please so indicate in the space
provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall
constitute a binding agreement between us.
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SCHEDULE 1-A
PRICING INFORMATION
Number of Firm Shares: 827,970
Number of Pre-Funded Warrants: 16,563,335
Number of Firm Warrants: 17,391,305
Number of Option Shares: 2,608,695
Number of Option Warrants: 2,608,695
Warrant Exercise Price: $0.75
Pre-Funded Warrant Exercise Price: $0.01
Public Offering Price per Option Share: $0.74
Public Offering Price per Option Warrant: $0.01
Underwriting Discount per Unit: $0.06
Underwriting Discount per Pre-Funded Warrant: $0.06
Proceeds to Company Unit (before expenses): $0.69
Proceeds to Company per Pre-Funded Unit: $0.68
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SCHEDULE 1-B
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
Issuer
General Use Free Writing Prospectus filed with the Commission on
October 5, 2018
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SCHEDULE 2
List of Lock-Up Parties
Isa Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Patient
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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EXHIBIT A
Form of Lock-Up Agreement
October ●, 2018
X.X. Xxxxxxxxxx & Co., LLC
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Re:
Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. (the
“Company”)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned is an owner of record or
beneficially of certain common shares of the Company
(“Common
Shares”) or securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Shares.
The Company proposes to carry out a public offering of securities
(the “Offering”) for which X.X. Xxxxxxxxxx & Co.,
LLC (the “Underwriter”) will act as the underwriter
pursuant to the underwriting agreement to be entered into
between the Underwriter and the Company with respect to the
Offering (the “Underwriting Agreement”). The
undersigned recognizes that the Offering will be of benefit to the
undersigned and will benefit the Company by, among other things,
raising additional capital for its operations. The undersigned
acknowledges that the Underwriter is relying on the representations
and agreements of the undersigned contained in this letter in
carrying out the Offering and in entering into the
Underwriting Agreement.
In
consideration of the foregoing, the undersigned hereby agrees that
the undersigned will not, and will not publicly disclose an
intention to (and will cause any spouse or immediate family member
of the spouse or the undersigned living in the undersigned’s
household not to), without the prior written consent of the
Underwriter (which consent may be withheld in its sole
discretion), directly or indirectly, sell, offer, contract or grant
any option to sell (including, without limitation, any short
sale), grant any option, right or warrant to
purchase, pledge, transfer, establish an open “put
equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”), lend or otherwise dispose of any
Common Shares, options, rights or warrants to acquire Common
Shares, or securities exchangeable or exercisable for or
convertible into Common Shares currently owned either of record or
beneficially (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by
the undersigned (or such spouse or family member), including,
without limitation, entering into any swap or other arrangement
that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic consequences of
the ownership of Common Shares or publicly announce an
intention to do any of the foregoing, for a period commencing on
the date hereof and continuing through the close of trading on the
date ninety (90) days after the date of thefinal prospectus
relating to the Offering (the “Restriction Period”),
except for (A) transactions related to Common Shares or other
securities acquired in the Offering or in the open market after the
completion of the Offering, (B) bona fide gifts, sales or other
dispositions of shares of any class of the Company’s capital
stock, in each case that are made exclusively between and among the
undersigned or members of the undersigned’s family, or
affiliates of the undersigned, including its partners (if a
partnership) or members (if a limited liability company), (C)
transfers to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the
undersigned or a member of the immediate family (as defined below)
of the undersigned, or (D) transfers by will, other testamentary
document or intestate succession to the legal representative, heir,
beneficiary, or a member of the immediate family of the
undersigned; provided that in the case of any transfer or
distribution pursuant to clause (B), (C) or (D), (1) each donee or
distributee shall execute and deliver to the Underwriter a lock-up
letter in the form of this paragraph and (2) any such transfer
shall not involve a disposition for value; and provided, further,
that in the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause
(B), (C) or (D), no filing by any party (donor, donee, transferor
or transferee) under the Exchange Act or other public announcement
shall be required or shall be made voluntarily in connection with
such transfer or distribution (other than a filing on a Form 5 made
after the expiration of the Restriction Period). Beneficial
ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of
the Exchange Act.
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If
the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company: (A)
notwithstanding any provision of this agreement to the contrary,
the share transfer restrictions set forth above shall apply to any
and all issuer-directed shares received by the undersigned in the
Offering; and (B) if the Underwriter determines in its sole
discretion to consent to a requested release or waiver of the
foregoing restrictions in connection with a transfer of Common
Shares, (i) as required by the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc., the Underwriter intends to notify the Company of
the impending release or waiver at least three (3) business days
before the effective date of such release or waiver, and (ii) the
Company (in accordance with the provisions of the Underwriting
Agreement) will announce the impending release or waiver by press
release through a major news service at least two (2) business days
before the effective date of the release or waiver. Any release or
waiver granted by the Underwriter hereunder to any such officer or
director shall only be effective two (2) business days after the
publication date of such press release. The provisions of this
paragraph will not apply if both (a) the release or waiver is
effected solely to permit a transfer not for consideration and (b)
the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms
described in this agreement that are applicable to the transferor
to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect
at the time of the transfer.
The
undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer
instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar
against the transfer of Common Shares held by the undersigned
except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions, and any duly
appointed transfer agent and registrar for the registration or
transfer of Common Shares described herein are hereby authorized to
decline to make any transfer of such Common Shares if such transfer
would constitute a violation or breach of this
agreement.
With
respect to the Offering only, the undersigned waives any
registration rights relating to registration under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, of any Common Shares owned either of
record or beneficially by the undersigned, including any rights to
receive notice of the Offering.
The undersigned understands that, (1) if the
Underwriting Agreement has not been executed on or before [ ],
2018
(provided that the
Company may by written notice to the undersigned prior to [ ],
2018 extend such date for a period of up to an additional [ ]
months), (2) if the Underwriting Agreement (other than the
provisions thereof which survive termination) shall terminate or be
terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the securities to
be sold thereunder or (3) after [ ], 2018, if the Company
advises in writing to the Underwriter that it has determined not to
proceed with the Offering prior to the execution of the
Underwriting Agreement, the undersigned shall be released from all
obligations under this agreement.
As
used herein, “immediate family” shall mean the spouse,
domestic partner, lineal descendant, father, mother, brother,
sister, or any other person with whom the undersigned has a
relationship by blood, marriage or adoption not more remote than
first cousin.
The
undersigned hereby agrees that, to the extent that the terms of
this agreement conflict with or are in any way inconsistent with
any registration rights agreement, any market standoff agreement or
any other lock-up agreement related to the Common Shares to which
the undersigned and the Company may be party, this agreement
supersedes such registration rights agreement, market standoff
agreement or other lock-up agreement.
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This agreement is irrevocable and will be binding on the
undersigned and the respective successors, heirs, personal
representatives, and assigns of the undersigned.
This letter agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard
to the conflict of laws principles thereof.
Very
truly yours,
____________________________________
Name of Securityholder/Director/Officer
(Print exact name)
By:_________________________________
Signature
If not signing in an individual capacity:
____________________________________
Name of Authorized Signatory (Print)
____________________________________
Title of Authorized Signatory (Print)
(indicate capacity of person signing if signing as custodian,
trustee or on behalf of an entity)